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Freedom Beat

0.0 68 mins Music   2003
Clapham Common Productions   NBD Pictures  
Director(s): Charles McDougall

On January 5, 1988, Artists Against Apartheid held a huge show in London to protest against the racist regime in South Africa, demanding the release of Nelson Mandela, jailed for 25 years for fighting to end prejudice against black people. British musicians like Peter Gabriel, Elvis Costello and Sting joined beloved bands like Style Council and Big Audio Dynamite, and black musicians of the calibre of Sade, Hugh Masekela, Maxi Priest and Princess, to show the world that there is no more tolerance. for racism.

Casts of Freedom Beat

Sade

as Self

Elvis Costello

as Self

Peter Gabriel

as Self

Sting

as Self

Gil Scott-Heron

as Self

Lorna Gee

as Self

Princess

as Self

Billy Bragg

as Self

Maxi Priest

as Self

Hugh Masekela

as Self

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